Pythia Island
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| Waters | Wilhelmina Bay | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 32 ′ S , 61 ° 59 ′ W | |
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Pythia Island is a 300 m long island off the Danco coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . In Wilhelmina Bay , it is the largest of a group of small islands off the east side of Enterprise Island .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the factory ship Pythia owned by the Norwegian whaling entrepreneur Lars Christensen , which operated in nearby Gouvernøren Harbor between 1921 and 1922 .
Web links
- Pythia Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pythia Island on geographic.org (English)